defense spending

As a result, defense spending is now only 12 percent below the average level from 1976 to 1990.

Because of our programs we have been able to significantly cut defense spending.

Most important, defense spending is again on the rise for the first time since the end of the cold war.

Bill Clinton seems to be saying interesting things, including about cutting defense spending.

This year, many people urged us to cut our defense spending further to pay for other government programs.

Absolutely, defense spending will moderate, and perhaps even go down.

And Congress has permitted defense spending to remain at current levels for the next three years.

Then the idea of caps on defense spending found favor.

Defense spending has already been cut dramatically and we must stop further cuts from taking place.

However, he added that Israel will also increase its defense spending as part of this effort.

In the recent budget agreement, they managed to increase defense spending for next year.

But even after these cuts, total defense spending will keep rising over present levels.

Still, Congress is about to enact a defense spending bill for 1990 as if little had changed.

This level is generally comparable to the defense spending during the cold war.

For one thing, the end of the cold war means that defense spending and military aid will decline.

This is the most cost-effective defense spending in the federal budget.

But before Congress is finished trying to balance the budget by the year 2002, it will have to take a second look at defense spending.

These would include taxation, immigration, defense spending, law and order among others.

None of the participants pushed for less defense spending, even if the war in Iraq were to wind down.

So, we dwarf the Japanese (and all other countries) in defense spending.

To make sure we have a strong America, I would stop the free fall in defense spending.

And defense spending looks downhill from here for the next several years."

A. Sept. 11 represented a sea change for defense spending.

He voted against every defense spending bill during the Vietnam era.

However, he predicted: "I actually think the level of defense spending is going to be flat."